---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 33"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "33"
heading: "Superintendents in charge of reservations; administration of oath of office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/33"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Officers of Indian Affairs"
---

# §33. Superintendents in charge of reservations; administration of oath of office


Superintendents and acting superintendents in charge of Indian reservations, schools, irrigation and allotment projects are authorized and empowered to administer the oath of office required of employees placed under their jurisdiction.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1913, ch. 4, § 1, 38 Stat. 80.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from the Indian Appropriation Act, 1914.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.